The Islamic Republic of Iran, looking lusciously bombable. Bomb bomb bomb, bomb Iran.
Prepare to be fucked, violently, with the blood of innocents as lubrication. No matter how much you beg them to stop, Cheney and Bush will keep pushing for war until it happens, and anyone familiar with the plans for a campaign against Persia is eager to tell anyone who will listen the administration expects to initiate surgical air strikes against the Revolutionary Guard before they relinquish power.
Prepare to be focus-grouped and relentlessly advertised to, with war as the product. Corporate America has long had its fat, oily fingers up the ass of the Republic, throwing their voices so it sounds like politicians are talking. That their invasive techniques have bled over into the beltway seems a natural consequence of their by-proxy rule of the country, and by extension, the world. The ad campaign, in truth, has already begun, with Iranain President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s polarizing visit the perfect stunt casting to interest us in what they’re hawking.
Back at the end of August, Barney Rubin told us of word he got from a source suggesting that a week after Labor Day, the office of Vice President Cheney would be pushing a new product roll-out. It would involve the usual suspects and it would be a test-marketing of an air war against Iran. We’re two weeks and a bit into that process. If you go back and sift through your newspapers, you’ll find that Rubin’s unnamed source clearly knew exactly what he was talking about. Indeed, what I’ve summarized here is the tiniest fragment of the total rollout effort (I didn’t even mention the ADL’s program, and they actually even called it a “rolloutâ€). Not only is it underway, Cheney’s role as the coordinator has become increasingly transparent. As psy ops projects go, this one isn’t terribly sophisticated. But no matter: the American media is just as easily suckered by this project as it was the last time. Just look at how the war party spun the broadcast media during the Ahmadinejad visit last week. The old adage is “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.†America is well into the process of being fooled twice.
Prepare for jingoists to cast aspersions on your patriotism, for reporters to be denounced, for the rest of the media to fall in lockstep. Rationale after rationale will be trumpeted with the hope that at least one will stick. Two – the threat of a nuclear Iran and the Iranian influence in a war-torn Iraq – have already been exhausted, with middling results. More are on their way.
Prepare for the feeling of helplessness those of us with foresight and a love of peace felt in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. That sick feeling in the pit of your stomach comes from the visions it sometimes feels like you alone can see: the death of our republic, citizens fearfully supplicating themselves before warmongers, our flirtation with real fascism, our pathetic willingness to give up our rights.
Why is impeachment “off the table”?
